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Denison, Kansas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1960. It stands in Garfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66419. It stands on Morgan Creek. The Survey maps it on the Holton quadrangle. 146 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,043 feet above sea level.

Denison within Jackson County

Population over time

2 figures

Denison fell from 187 to 146 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010187
2020146-41 (-22%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 18 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

26 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Denison between 2015 and 2018, burning about 133 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Other causes1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
5 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresKansas Forest Service46
23 April 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresJackson County152
8 March 2015Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresKansas Forest Service100
8 March 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresKansas Forest Service16
7 March 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresKansas Forest Service15
24 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service126
24 March 2018Debris and open burning10 acresKansas Forest Service32
22 March 2018Debris and open burning5.0 acresKansas Forest Service124

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this place

14 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Denison in 14 storm reports between 1997 and 2017: 7 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2010Thunderstorm WindDenison$1,000A large tree was blown down across Highway 16.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindDenison-Photo was received via social media showing a 4 inch diameter limb snapped off a tree. Time was corrected via radar.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindDenison-Picture received via social media showing a 4 inch diameter tree limb snapped.
April 2016HailDenison-Law enforcement estimated quarter size hail.
September 2016Flash FloodDenison-The intersection of Highway 198 and V Road is closed due to water across the road.
May 2017HailDenison-no account filed
May 2011HailDenison-no account filed
June 2002Thunderstorm WindDenison-no account filed
June 2002Thunderstorm WindDenison-no account filed
April 2001HailDenison-no account filed
April 2001HailDenison-no account filed
June 1998HailDenison-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindDenison-no account filed
June 1997HailDenison-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jackson County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Birmingham3.1 miles18
Carbon (historical)6.1 miles18
Mayetta6.2 miles17
Holton7.7 miles18
Hoyt10.8 miles20
Whiting13.7 miles18
Circleville14.6 miles17
Netawaka15.3 miles17

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on DenisonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2666642The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 478205. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.